thanatanan.
/ˈθɑːnɑː/, U.S. /ˈθɑnɑ/, Indian English /ˈʈhaːna(ː)/ East India.
a. A police station in India; formerly, a military station or fortified post.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > fort or fortified town > [noun]
chestera855
boroughc893
fastnessOE
strength?c1225
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garrison-town1649
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place of arms1704
ostrog1761
qila1761
presidio1763
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thana1803
pa1823
castrum1836
lis1845
Gibraltar1856
training post1867
kasbah1902
jong1904
society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > police office or station > foreign
thana1803
Questura1852
kotwalee1854
station house1870
precinct1894
precinct station1902
gendarmerie1945
kotwali1964
precinct house1968
precinct station house1979
1803 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) II. 251 I give you notice, that you may have your tannahs prepared in your villages and desire them to defend them.
1834 A. Prinsep Baboo II. xi. 202 The Burkundazes at last came up from the Thana.
1879 C. R. Low Jrnl. Gen. Abbott iii. 214 Thannahs (posts) for the protection of the Cabul were re-established.
1895 B. M. Croker Village Tales (1896) 212 They were found..near the police thana on the Futupore Road.
b. (See quot. 1961).
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society > law > legal power > [noun] > extent or range of jurisdiction > a district > under jurisdiction of a police-station
thana1936
1936 W. H. S. Smith Let. 5 Dec. in Young Man's Country (1977) ii. 45 I am making a tour of all the thanas this fortnight.
1961 L. D. Stamp Gloss. Geogr. Terms 450/2 Thānā, a political division of a district which is under the jurisdiction of a single police-station so that a thana is really a police-station area.
1975 Bangladesh Times 19 July 3/2 Besides forty three members of Jessore district and thana units of the defunct organisation have applied for the membership of BKSAL.
1977 Bangladesh Times 19 Jan. 12/3 He made a plea for the abolition of..divisions, districts, sub-divisions and thanas because they are..ineffective for today's needs.
Derivatives
thanadar n. /tɑːnəˈdɑː(r)/ [Hindi thānadār] the head officer of a police station in India; formerly the commander of a military post.
/tɑːnəˈdɑː(r)/ [Hindi thānadār] the head officer of a police station in India; formerly the commander of a military post.ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer or soldier of rank > [noun] > commanding officer
commanding officer1758
thanadar1802
company commander1820
old man1830
C.O.1889
skipper1906
commandant1915
society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > policeman > head of police force > foreign
commissaire1386
pristav1568
kotwal1582
provost marshal1619
commissary1787
police-master1798
thanadar1802
quaestor1862
ispravnik1886
1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. (1816) Tannadar, a commander of a small fort.
1834 A. Prinsep Baboo I. xviii. 326 Thou must be a Thanadar at least.
1897 L. J. Trotter Life J. Nicholson xvii. 200 He suspended a thanadar whom he caught in an act of oppression.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online September 2022).
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